Jorge Garcia 'loved Lost finale'

The actor, who played Hurley, explained that he sighed with relief when he read the episode because he was so pleased with it.

"I loved it," Garcia told E! Online. "When I first got the finale script, it didn't have the final act in it yet. But I got to the part where Hurley takes over and there was a kind of a sigh of relief.

"I thought, 'OK, this ending is a satisfying ending for me. Everything I invested in this show does pay off. And so I'm good, the ending is good, and I don't have to worry about it'."

Garcia also revealed that he had thought he might become the island's protector.

"During the whole season, Matt Fox [Jack] and I were going back and forth, going, 'It's going to be one of us, it's not going to be one of them, it's got to be one of us'," he said. "So yeah, I liked it. It was quite heavy."

Last month, the Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences announced that it had changed the Emmy Awards criteria so that the Lost finale can be nominated.